On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:01, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > My advise to a complete newbie to get quality help to install either one > > > of the source distros or Debian or one of its offspring. You can then > > > upgrade with a one-line command. > > > > This is easier said than done. It looks to me that some people forget > > that not everybody is on a 1Mb/s connection. ;-) > > With every due respect, no, not at all. > > The source distros will connect to the local mirror and either d/l or rsync -- > depending on which distro -- from there. > > It's quite practical to get approx 5 Megs or so of source code needed by one > of the larger apps. from a good NZ mirror by 56k modem. ( Quarter of an hour > approx ). Anyway you can always get the source code file onto your machine > using a method other than a modem d/l can't you?
I though you were talking about upgrades ... you know ... when you download about 1-2 GB (binary only and compressed). Oh, wait, .... you did, you did :-) How many Debian upgrades have you actually done over 56k modem ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
